Why Education Publishing Is Big Business | Epicenter | Wired.com

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteInteresting…. Why Education Publishing Is Big Business | Epicenter | Wired.com.   Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading

The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia | VentureBeat. The dark side of Apple’s digital textbook utopia One of the problems with Apple is that it wants to commandeer market share by preventing people from having a choice. Even … Continue reading

Learning Outside the Box: Sweden debuts first classroom-less school | SmartPlanet

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteSweden debuts first classroom-less school | SmartPlanet. It looks great. This isn’t a new concept though – Canada (and I’m sure other places too) experimented with “Open Concept” schools in the late 60’s. The design of the school in the … Continue reading

SOPA Supporters

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minutehttp://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/01/16/1433222/sopa-and-pipa-so-far Here is Slashdot’s update. It contains a link to a GoogleDoc that lists the companies that support SOPA (far as we know). It is interesting what kinds of companies are on this list – many of them sell high-end … Continue reading

Note to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteNote to Faculty: Don’t Be Such a Know-It-All – Teaching – The Chronicle of Higher Education. This isn’t news. I’ve been doing this for decades. Not long after I started teaching, I came to realize that a good way to … Continue reading

The Rise of the New Groupthink – NYTimes.com

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Rise of the New Groupthink – NYTimes.com. I’ve long suspected that many (if not most) people who insist on groupwork for everything do so because they can’t really produce anything on their own. Working in groups is great and … Continue reading

Gamasutra – Features – 7 Things To Know About HTML5

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere’s why it’s best to wait a bit before developing anything non-trivial in HTML-5 Gamasutra – Features – 7 Things To Know About HTML5. Be the first to like. Like Unlike … Continue reading

Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives (Forbes)

Approximate Reading Time: < 1 minuteTimely. Know anyone like this? You don’t have to be the head of a big corporation to be like this: The Seven Habits of Spectacularly Unsuccessful Executives – Forbes.   They see themselves and their companies as dominating their environment … Continue reading